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The Finest Quality Snake Oil: Mandometer(r) Treatment for Eating Disorders –...
PROTIP: When selling your snake oil treatment, try NOT to make wildly outrageous efficacy claims. But if you can’t resist that temptation, try to limit your hard-to-believe, eye-roll-inducing claims...
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The Finest Quality Snake Oil: Mandometer(r) Treatment for Eating Disorders –...
This is Part II of my mini-series on the Mandometer(r) treatment for eating disorders (link to Part I). In Part I, I provided some background on the Mandometer(r) treatment; in this post, I want to...
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2013 in Review: Most Popular Posts & Most Searched Queries of 2013
It is 2014! How did that happen? The year went by quickly; I defended my MSc, settled comfortably into self-employment, made huge strides in my recovery, and went to my first eating disorder...
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Examining Mandometer(r) Founders’ 10 “Reasons” Why Eating Disorders Are Not...
This is Part III of my mini-series on the Mandometer® treatment. In my first post, I wrote about the history and rationale of the Mandometer® treatment. In my second post, I evaluated a recent study...
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Examining Mandometer(r) Founders’ 10 “Reasons” Why Eating Disorders Are Not...
This is the last post in my mini-series on the Mandometer® Treatment. (Links to earlier posts here: Part I, Part II, and Part III). In this post I’m going to continue examining Bergh et al.’s reasons...
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Enraged by Sounds: Misophonia in Eating Disorder Patients (Clinicians, Listen...
Few people would claim to like the sound of chewing, lip smacking, or pen clicking. But while disliking these noises is commonplace, experiencing anxiety, panic and/or rage in response to them–a...
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Setting a Target Weight: An Arbitrary Exercise?
Achieving a healthy weight is a major goal of anorexia nervosa treatment. Indeed, a healthy weight is often seen as a prerequisite for psychological recovery. The fact that weight restoration is a...
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Eating Disorders and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Eating disorder patients commonly complain of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms including bloating, abdominal pain, and constipation. This is, of course, not surprising. After all, disordered eating...
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Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Useful, Useless, or Worse?
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week came and went (in the US, anyway). Posters were shared, liked, and tweeted. Pretty (but often misguided) infographics made the rounds on the internet. Local ED...
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I Asked, “Are You In Recovery? Why or Why Not?” Here’s What You Answered (And...
“Are you in recovery right now? Why or why not?” That’s one of the questions I’ve been asking on the SEDs Tumblr every once in a while. It is interesting for me to find out about the people who read...
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Good Clinicians, Helpful Comments, & Unpopular Opinions: SEDs Readers’...
A few weeks ago, I asked SEDs readers a bunch of questions about their experiences with an eating disorder. Then, pretending to be a qualitative researcher, I went through the answers to see if I...
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Energy Expenditure in Anorexia Nervosa Patients
How many calories do patients with anorexia nervosa need to eat to gain a kilo (2.2 lbs)? It seems like a simple question and one that we should have figured out a long time ago, given the importance...
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Hypermetabolism in Anorexia Nervosa
Weight restoration is a crucial component of anorexia nervosa treatment. It is a challenging process for a multitude of reasons. Adding to the complexity and the challenge is the fact that during...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder & Eating Disorders: Is There a Link?
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, is a common childhood disorder. ADHD can often persist into adolescence and adulthood....
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Serious Restrictive Eating Disorders Occur at Any Weight
Although the words “anorexia nervosa” typically conjure up images of emaciated bodies, eating disorders characterized by dietary restriction or weight loss can — and do — occur at any weight. However,...
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I Need How Many Calories? Caloric Needs in Bulimia Nervosa Patients
In the 1980s, a few studies came out suggesting that patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) require fewer calories for weight maintenance than anorexia nervosa patients (e.g., Newman, Halmi, & Marchi,...
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Recovering from an Eating Disorder in a Society that Loves Fat Shaming (and...
Is ED recovery easier when your body is “normative or stereotypically desirable”? The anon asking the question implied that recovery could be more difficult because “an obese person … will never stop...
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Treating Severe Anorexia Nervosa in the Community
Can treatment for severe anorexia nervosa be delivered safely in a community setting? According to a recent paper by Calum Munro and colleagues (2014, open access), the answer is yes. In 2001, a...
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Histamine and Anorexia Nervosa
Most of us have at some point in our lives taken antihistamines–drugs that block the action of histamine (e.g., Claritin, Allegra)–to relieve allergy symptoms. And while histamine is best known for...
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Smartphone Apps for the Treatment of Eating Disorders
As of January 2014, over 50% of adults in the United States own a smartphone; unsurprisingly, there has been a growth in the number of mobile applications (apps) aimed at providing health care...
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